Skills shortages

Designed to encourage middle-aged people to pursue a new career as cabin crew, the campaign targets ‘empty nesters’, those whose children have left home and are no longer dependent on them.

The Labour leader will set our Labour's immigration policy at the CBI annual conference. He will call for an end to cheap labour from abroad.

Politicians need to be more ‘practical’ about immigration and support employers to attract foreign workers to solve worker shortages, according...

Many concerns about the autumn statement have focused on whether the measures will help tackle the skills and labour shortage and make more likely the possibility of redundancies this winter.

There were several other measures contained in the full autumn statement that the chancellor did not expand upon.

The Confederation of British Industry (CBI) has urged the Chancellor to reform the apprenticeship levy, immigration system and the Shortage...

New figures show the extent to which UK businesses are turning to talent in south Asia and sub-Saharan Africa to plug their skills gaps.

The proportion of overqualified workers has grown significantly since 1992, according to CIPD research.

Workplace pressures are severely undermining the capacity of adult social care in England to provide services and may lead to the sector's collapse.

Ministers and officials are thought to be reviewing visas and immigration rules to see what can be done to ease the labour shortage and help businesses grow. What are their options?

Getting on for half of HR leaders have reported that their company is losing up to 15% in revenues because of the UK labour shortage.

There were 143,000 new job postings last week – the lowest number since early spring this year.

Stuart Worden from The Brit School, a school for the creative arts and performers, talks about the value of creative talent for businesses.

Employers may have welcomed some growth elements of the mini-Budget, but employees have been alarmed by talk of pensions failing, mortgages rising, pay stagnating and the inequality gap widening.

Firms' plans to recruit more staff fly in face of warnings of recession.